• adj. 流行的；傳染性的
• n. 傳染病；流行病；風(fēng)尚等的流行

epi-, 在上，在中。-demo, 人民，詞源同demotic, democracy.

epidemic

epidemic: [17] An epidemic is literally something that has an effect ‘a(chǎn)mong the people’. The word comes from French épidémique, a derivative of the noun épidémie, which goes back via late Latin epidēmia to Greek epidēmíā ‘disease prevalent among the people’. This was a noun use of epidémios, a compound adjective formed from the prefix epí- ‘a(chǎn)mong’ and demos ‘people’ (source of English democracy).
=> democracy

epidemic (adj.)

c. 1600, "common to or affecting a whole people," originally and usually, though not etymologically, in reference to diseases, from French épidémique, from épidemié "an epidemic disease," from Medieval Latin epidemia, from Greek epidemia "a stay in a place; prevalence of an epidemic disease" (especially the plague), from epi "among, upon" (see epi-) + demos "people, district" (see demotic).

epidemic (n.)

1757, "an epidemic disease, a temporary prevalence of a disease throughout a community," from epidemic (adj.); earlier epideme (see epidemy). An Old English noun for this (persisting in Middle English) was man-cwealm.

1. Drug experts say it could spell the end of the crack epidemic.

禁毒專家說它可能會結(jié)束強(qiáng)效可卡因吸食泛濫的局面。

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2. Health officials have successfully confined the epidemic to the Tabatinga area.

衛(wèi)生官員成功地將疫情控制在塔巴廷加地區(qū)。

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3. The major impact of this epidemic worldwide is yet to come.

這種傳染病在世界范圍內(nèi)的重大影響還未完全顯現(xiàn)。

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4. The AIDS epidemic further stigmatised gays.

艾滋病的流行讓人們更加瞧不起男同性戀者。

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5. Today, doctors are fearing a worldwide epidemic.

現(xiàn)今，醫(yī)生們擔(dān)心會爆發(fā)世界性的流行病。

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